Well, (ahem) getting back to barns, neither Marilyn or I have much affection for barns. Both of us grew up working our butts off in barns in our younger days and I continued to do so for the first 25 years of our marriage. However, the barn is still the symbol of the good old days when life was maybe not easier but much simpler. The last barn in section 10 went down about 3/4 mile from me this spring. It was a plain old rectangular barn that had not had anything done to it for probably 60 years, but the walls and roofline were still straight as a string, a testament to the good work of a building crew long gone. It sat there alone in the field for a good many years after the rest of the buildings met their demise. The last family to live there moved away sometime in the late fifties. I remember the bus stopping there when I was just a little squirt and there were a couple of kids, but that's about it. In my neck of the woods we have or had very few big old ornate, fancy barns, unlike eastern Iowa and on east where the big grand ones still stand. I'm guessing the reason ours aren't fancy was a lack of cheap native lumber here on the barren prairies.
Oh yes, the back seat of my 59 Chevy was nice and wide but a big car like that was harder to hide in this area with no natural landscape to park behind. The 62 Rambler with the fold down seats was a little too dangerous if we were caught and had to do a fast getaway. (fast? 196 cube six cylinder?) The front seat was slid way ahead and the seat back was folded way down. Pretty hard to drive that way. There, I covered both subjects! oh yes, I still have the rambler. Jim
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